CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

Traditional perimeter-based security models are no longer sufficient, and organizations are seeking comprehensive solutions that can protect their data and resources across a dispersed network. New advances like SD-WAN and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) are helping network professionals keep pace.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

.): 55% Lack of needed skillsets: 41% False positive alerts: 41% Remote employees: 40% Alert storms (alerts causing other alerts, noise, etc): 39% Next-generation technology (5G, 400gE, SD-WAN, SDN, etc.):

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Network World

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The company was founded in 2018 by former Cisco employees who had previously founded SD-WAN vendor Viptella. A user can directly terminate into a cloud exchange point and have the same kind of visibility, governance and control in terms of what resources that user can access on the network.”

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Network World

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The challenges of AI on WAN connectivity With the immense hardware and bandwidth requirements of AI, the challenges for AI connectivity across the WAN are numerous. Connecting these workloads across a traditional WAN is not feasible or cost-effective.

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Network World

AUGUST 3, 2023

Fortinet has added new features to its SD-WAN software and a next-generation firewall series that promise to help customers better monitor and protect distributed enterprise resources. To read this article in full, please click here

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Network World

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Extreme Networks has added network fabric capabilities to its flagship SD-WAN platform to enable customers to link and manage distributed resources more securely. Additional enhancements to the ExtremeCloud SD-WAN platform include improved automated workflows and direct connectivity to cloud systems such as Microsoft Azure and AWS.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Palo Altos Prisma SASE platform combines SD-WAN with cloud-based security capabilities, including secure access control, advanced threat protection, user-behavior monitoring, and zero-trust network access ( ZTNA ). The latest version of Prisma SASE, version 3.0,

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Network World

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is a network architecture that combines software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN ) and security functionality into a unified cloud service that promises simplified WAN deployments, improved efficiency and security, and application-specific bandwidth policies. billion by 2025. What is SASE?

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Network World

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

For day 2, AI can be used to allocate resources, identify and quickly address (and predict) problems in the network, centralize problem identification, automate recommendation and response, resolve lower-level support issues and reduce trouble ticket false positives through confirm-reject analysis, among other capabilities.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Now it’s exciting to see Wi-Fi 7’s “deterministic” features come to fruition, because that means Wi-Fi can be used for next-generation networking requirements, including distributed data centers, SD-WAN and more, Matt MacPherson, wireless CTO at Cisco, told Network World in a recent interview.

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Network World

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Secure access service edge (SASE) architecture rolls networking and security into a cloud service, making it easier for enterprises to provide simple, secure access to corporate resources, but it’s still in its infancy.

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Network World

OCTOBER 1, 2020

At its virtual VWworld 2020 gathering, VMware detailed products and plans to help customers deal with the challenges of securing distributed enterprise resources.

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Network World

MARCH 31, 2020

With an eye towards significantly bolstering its edge networking offerings, Palo Alto has entered into an agreement to buy cloud-based SD-WAN vendor CloudGenix for $420 million in cash. To read this article in full, please click here

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 31, 2023

Legacy network shortcomings led to the rapid growth of software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN). Cost savings and ROI: SD-WAN routes traffic efficiently over multiple channels—including existing MPLS circuits and the public internet via LTE, broadband, and 5G. This reduces latency. They are not equally effective solutions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2022

SD-WAN can help financial services organizations achieve network agility and security. An SD-WAN overlays traditional or hybrid WAN infrastructures and locates the software or hardware nodes at each location and in the cloud. Organizations must also ensure their data is protected and compliant.

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WAN Financial Agile Firewall 278

Network World

MAY 12, 2020

As the work-from-home trend grows due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for secure access to enterprise resources continues to grow and with it the demand for ever-more VPN. In an April blog AT&T pointed to a 700% increase in connections to its cloud-based SD-WAN Static Network Based (ANIRA) VPN service.

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Network World

AUGUST 29, 2024

Fortinet is also jumping on the generative AI bandwagon with enhancements to its FortiAI technology, which is getting updated to help manage and orchestrate SD-WAN infrastructure. The latest integration as part of Unified SASE is with Fortinet Secure SD-WAN. What is sovereign SASE and why is it needed?

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WAN Security Network Hardware 420

Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 29, 2014

We are entering an era of branch office and cloud connectivity where a single static WAN resource will not be able to provide service levels that organizations demand from their networks, writes Dr. Cahit Akin of Mushroom Networks. WAN orchestration is a powerful concept that will help facilitate. Industry Perspectives'

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Network World

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Cisco has strengthened some of its key security software packages with an eye toward better protecting distributed enterprise resources. The company also enhanced its SASE offering by expanding its SD-WAN integration options.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Limited WAN Bandwidth. In a 2014 Next-Generation WAN Survey , 68 percent of respondents said demand for WAN bandwidth will increase over the next year. As the number of connected devices grows—from smartphones to tablets, and more—this strain on WAN bandwidth is inevitable. BYOD Will Fail to Live up to the Hype.

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WAN Security Enterprise Enterprise 273

Network World

MARCH 7, 2023

The company has added a feature to its Secure Private Access that ties SASE resources together with SD-WAN -based applications through a Fortinet SD-WAN hub located in a nearby point-of-presence (PoP).

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WAN Security Applications Resources 398

Network World

OCTOBER 15, 2024

When deployed properly, SASE, which combines SD-WAN with cloud-delivered security via SSE, enables all users and devices, regardless of location, to securely access an organization’s hybrid network. However, it’s still important to assess how well SD-WAN and SSE are connected within a SASE solution.

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Network World

JANUARY 30, 2025

Even well-resourced networking companies in complementary networking markets are unlikely to be strong alternatives to Cisco and HPE immediately, as several face reputational headwinds and have not developed the distribution networks for rapid growth in the enterprise-grade WLAN market, the DOJ stated.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

A growing number of organizations are drawing an invisible line around their internet-connected resources in an effort to keep attackers at bay. Advantages include stronger security and greater flexibility and consistency," says Ron Howell, principal SD-WAN and SASE architect at IT and business consulting firm Capgemini Americas.

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Network World

AUGUST 20, 2024

Our acquisitions left us with a fragmented network comprising several WANs and dozens of VPN solutions, making management, monitoring, and policy implementation extremely challenging. The shift to ZPA was seamless, and our remote employees could access the resources they needed to do their jobs without the cumbersome and risky connections.

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WAN Network Policies Security 398

Network World

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Data center sustainability Data center sustainability is the practice of designing, building and operating data centers in a way that minimizes their environmental by reducing energy consumption, water usage and waste generation, while also promoting sustainable practices such as renewable energy and efficient resource management. Industry 4.0

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2023

More recently, AWS developed AWS Cloud WAN , which sits on top of Transit Gateway and makes it easier to build, manage, and monitor a global network that connects resources running across cloud and on-premises environments. It’s important to work with a trusted partner to configure and deploy the services properly.

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Network World

JUNE 6, 2024

In 2019, Gartner created the term SASE to describe a cloud-based service that combines networking and security to give remote workers safe access to internet-based resources. In response to these realities, Gartner coined a new term, secure service edge (SSE), which is essentially SASE minus SD-WAN , the network access part of the equation.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

With the new additions, Juniper is looking to buttress its ability to let users secure all traffic traversing the enterprise network via campus, WAN or data center. To read this article in full, please click here

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Wireless Security WAN Firewall 379

Network World

MARCH 12, 2025

The Cato LAN NGFW offers application-aware segmentation from the Cato Edge Socket, providing distributed networks with the same level of protection for LAN traffic as for WAN and internet-bound traffic, the company stated. Operating at Layer 7, it allows for detailed control over LAN applications such as RDP and SSH, among others.

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Network World

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Versa Networks has bumped up its secure access service edge ( SASE ) software with a variety of features, including AI to help customers better manage LAN resources at the edge of their networks. To read this article in full, please click here

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LAN WAN Data Center Network 370

Network World

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Buyer’s guide: SASE and SSE : SASE rolls networking and security into a cloud service, making it easier for enterprises to provide simple, secure access to corporate resources. Why is the transition from SD-WAN to SASE so painful? Many vendors offer SASE services, but what they actually provide and how they provide it varies widely.

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Network WAN LAN Applications 458

Network World

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Marvis can detect and describe countless network problems, including persistently failing wired or wireless clients, bad cables, access-point coverage holes, problematic WAN links, and insufficient radio-frequency capacity. App/Service Awareness lets customers see where their apps connect to the network and how they use network resources.

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Network World

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Buyer’s guide: SASE and SSE : SASE rolls networking and security into a cloud service, making it easier for enterprises to provide simple, secure access to corporate resources. Why is the transition from SD-WAN to SASE so painful? Many vendors offer SASE services, but what they actually provide and how they provide it varies widely.

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Security Data WAN Network 436

Network World

AUGUST 8, 2024

Its authors note in the paper that “WAN bandwidth is never too broad — and the speed of light stubbornly constant. Such systems provide a standard interface to the resources, an interface that mediates between users’ needs, budgets and system goals.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2025

Zero trust eliminates these issues, allowing every branch or employee to serve as an independent entity while enabling secure access only to the specific resources each person or device requires. SD-WAN emerged as a solution to this inefficiency, enabling direct connections from branch offices to the cloud without the high costs of MPLS.

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Network World

JUNE 5, 2024

It promises to let organizations autonomously segment their networks when threats are a problem, gain rapid exploit protection without having to patch or revamp firewalls, and automatically upgrade software without interrupting computing resources. In addition, a new version of firewall software, version 7.6

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